Final HP Beholder Master List and Reveals

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With this final post, hp_beholder will be closing its doors. Seven years—what a run! (That's long enough, you may note, to complete a Hogwarts education.) I want to thank first and foremost bethbethbeth for creating this wonderful fest, which has been a home away from home for fans like me. I don't think there is anything I can do or say to properly convey how much joy I've found here.

Thank you to those who been here since the beginning, and to those who took part for the first time this year.

Thank you to every generous pinch-hitter and commenter.

Thank you to everyone who pioneered a pairing here, and to those who made someone's year by gifting them with their favourite rare ship.

Thank you to everyone who challenged themselves, indulged themselves, and took a chance on creating or enjoying something different.

Over the next year, I'll be working to clean up the tags and back up everything on Dreamwidth so that this wonderful collection will endure as an archive of some of the best, most original, and most thoughtful works the Harry Potter fandom has to offer. If you publish on AO3, please consider adding your work to the HP Beholder collection.

Now, with no further ado, here are this year's authors and artists revealed:

ART

shadowycat drew "To That Which Improves with Age" (Albus Dumbledore/Horace Slughorn. PG13.) for purplefluffycat

Trixie Locket drew " Untitled Andromeda/Sybill" (Andromeda Tonks/Sybill Trelawney. R.) for tarteaucitron


FIC

kelly_chambliss wrote "Roses in December" (Minerva McGonagall/Neville Longbottom. R.) for psyfic

dexstarr wrote "The Dim Light From Which Falls Stars" (Aurora Sinistra/Emmeline Vance. PG13.) for venturous

purplefluffycat wrote "Dirigible Plum" (Albus Dumbledore/Xenophilius Lovegood. PG13.) for wwmrsweasleydo

lash_larue wrote "Why Would You?" (Millicent Bulstrode/Viktor Krum. PG13.) for alisanne

katmarajade wrote "Could Not Love You Any Better" (Amelia Bones/Charity Burbage. PG13.) for miramiraficfic

_hannelore wrote "Brittle" (Peter Pettigrew/Garrick Ollivander. R.) for magnetic_pole

mindabbles wrote "Enough for Now" (Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom, Amelia Bones/Severus Snape. R.) for kellychambliss

anguis_1 wrote "The Perils of Arousal on School Grounds" (Dudley Dursley/Millicent Bulstrode. R.) for nothorse

alley_skywalker wrote "Nobody's Hero (Except for Maybe Yours)" (Antonin Dolohov/Draco Malfoy. PG.) for rilla_licious

donnaimmaculata wrote "By Theft or Force" (Dolores Umbridge/Arabella Figg. NC17.) for _hannelore

ragdoll wrote "Fools in Love" (Julian Williamson/Nymphadora Tonks, Alastor Moody/Nymphadora Tonks. NC17.) for raven_cromwell

nothorse wrote "Sanctuary" (Millicent/Hermione, past Millicent/Viktor Krum. PG.) for the HP Beholder Community

miramiraficfic wrote "Centaurs and Merfolk" (Millicent Bulstrode/Dudley Dursley, past Millicent Bulstrode/Vincent Crabbe. PG.) for anguis_1

fluffyllama wrote "No Charity" (Aunt Marge/Rita Skeeter. PG.) for donnaimmaculata

pauraque wrote "The Ten Month Career of Professor R. J. Lupin" (Lupin/McGonagall, Snape/McGonagall. PG-13.) for shadowycat

wwmrsweasleydo wrote "A Lonely Road" (Severus Snape/Aberforth Dumbledore. R.) for the HP Beholder Community

venturous wrote "Twists of Fate" (Emmeline Vance/Amelia Bones. PG-13.) for dexstarr

rilla_licious wrote "Be Here Now" (Antonin Dolohov/Various. PG-13.) for alley_skywalker

tarteaucitron wrote "we lay together on a cold hard floor" (Peter Pettigrew/Severus Snape. R, Underage.) for mindabbles

psyfic wrote "A Night to Remember" (Amelia Bones/Rufus Scrimgeour. R.) for the HP Beholder Community

tamlane wrote "A Guide and Not a Jailer" (Alastor Moody/Nymphadora Tonks. NC-17.) for ragdoll

alisanne wrote "A Properly Improper Love Affair" (Garrick Ollivander/Pomona Sprout. PG-13.) for katmarajade

broodedhelm wrote "A Gramarye of Folk Magic" (Aberforth Dumbledore/Severus Snape. NC-17.) for evensong14

magnetic_pole wrote "Cat Ladies" (Arabella Figg/Dolores Umbridge. PG.) for The HP Beholder Community

raven_cromwell wrote "Straight on 'Till Morning" (Rufus Scrimgeour/Alastor Moody. PG-13.) for fluffyllama

psyfic wrote "Working Things Out -aka- The Delicate Dance of the Happy Tentacula" (Undisclosed. R.) for the HP Beholder Community

evensong14 wrote "Elegy for a Goat" (Aberforth Dumbledore/Severus Snape. PG-13.) for pauraque

dueltastic wrote "A Short Treatise on the Social Lives of Ghosts" (Cuthbert Binns/Grey Lady, Cuthbert Binns/Horace Slughorn, Moaning Myrtle/Nearly Headless Nick, The Fat Friar/The Wailing Widow. PG.) for the HP Beholder Pinch Hitters

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STATISTICS!

This year's results:

Fic/Art by Pairing Category

(more than 30 total due to multiple pairings in some stories)

Slash - 11
Het - 14
Femslash - 9


Pairings that appeared more than once:

Aberforth Dumbledore/Severus Snape - 3
Alastor Moody/Nymphadora Tonks - 2
Dolores Umbridge/Arabella Figg - 2
Dudley Dursley/Millicent Bulstrode - 2
Millicent Bulstrode/Viktor Krum - 2
Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape - 2


Characters who were the focus of 3 or more stories/works of art

Severus Snape - 7 (not a Beholder character, but a welcome and fitting guest)
Amelia Bones - 4
Millicent Bulstrode - 4
Minerva McGonagall - 4
Aberforth Dumbledore - 3
Alastor Moody - 3

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Artists: please give me the new links for your art as soon as you re-upload, so that I can update the coding. And Authors: if you'd like me to add a preferred redirect for your stories, just let me know!

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for making this such a special community.